Bias surrounds us every day. Everything we look at has a lens of our experience coloring our perception, and everyone has their own lens. This impacts how we share and receive information. So why is this important for process safety? Cognitive biases cover a range of aspects, each of which can have an impact on process safety, from what we remember, to coping with too much information, to a lack of context and meaning or a need to act with great haste. There are many identified specific cognitive biases, not every one of them impacts on process safety, but many can and have. This paper will review several process safety type incidents that had cognitive bias as a factor and discuss ideas on how to manage the bias, so we do not fall into its trap.

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你在看哪只眼睛？认知偏差对过程安全的影响

偏见每天都围绕着我们。我们所看到的一切都有我们经验的镜头，影响着我们的感知，每个人都有自己的镜头。这会影响我们共享和接收信息的方式。那么为什么这对过程安全很重要呢？认知偏差涵盖了一系列方面，每一个方面都可能对过程安全产生影响，从我们记忆中的内容到应对过多信息，再到缺乏背景和意义，或者需要匆忙采取行动。有许多已确定的特定认知偏差，并非每一个都会影响过程安全，但很多都可以并且已经存在。本文将回顾几个以认知偏差为因素的过程安全类型事件，并讨论如何管理偏差的想法，以免我们落入陷阱。